Effac'd Quotes

#1. Hence life, as through a cloud, for me I see Vanish, and to the past's dark shade 'tis chas'd; As a grand image love remains to me
Sole remnant of a dream, by morn effac'd.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#2. You weren't born to fit in. You were born to be brilliant.

Simon T. Bailey

#3. A poet's words are like mortar to the bricks of society.

Jason E. Hodges

#4. I will show her that loving her is my greatest truth, and the most beautiful thing I have ever known. - Gem

Stacey Jay

#5. Her eyes were enlarged and faded with discovering what, by common human agreement, is better undivulged.

Shirley Hazzard

#6. Reading blogs would be like sentencing yourself to stand in a virtual online corner, trapped by some crashing bore who only wanted to talk about trains, or his poetry, or something.

Cecilia Peartree

#7. I was also an only child and my father really wanted a son - he's from that generation - it was always about kung-fu theater on Sundays and boxing games on the weekend.

Milla Jovovich

#8. You know my biggest fear is this: That all my hard work. All my good intentions. All my studying. Have been nothing more than a building of a wall between me and life.

Hal Hartley

#9. Sorry to interrupt myself, but it's the only way I stop talking.

Rush Limbaugh

#10. Each drop hits the pavement;
A soft, incoherent shatter below.
Here I stand in torturous observance
Of this strange disappearing act.

Katie Douglas

#11. It's not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It's that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life.

Godfrey Reggio

#12. Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.

Irwin Shaw

#13. Every marvel of our age arose out of the critical give and take of an open society. No other civilization ever managed to incorporate this crucial innovation, weaving it into daily life. And if you disagree with this ... say so!

David Brin

#14. And I needed a rock. Something to hold onto, to stand on. Something solid. Because everything was going soft, turning into mush, into marsh, into fog. Fog closing in on all sides. I didn't know where I was at all.

Ursula K. Le Guin